Co-founder of The New Press and longtime editor in chief and managing director of Pantheon prior to the Andre Schiffrin died in Paris on Sunday from pancreatic cancer. He was 78. The NYT calls him “a publishing force for 50 years, whose passion for editorial independence produced shelves of serious books, a titanic collision with a conglomerate that forced him out to stem losses, and a late-in-life comeback as a nonprofit publisher.” And they certify in print a definition of Pantheon as “a Random House imprint where making money was never the main point.” Bertelsmann’s president of corporate development and […]
Archives for December 2013
December Picks and More Year-End Lists
Amazon listed their picks for best books of December, with Michael Connelly’s The Gods of Guilt the “spotlight pick,” and their featured debut is Sun-mi Hwang’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. Inside the Dream Palace, Sherill Tippins Brown Dog, Jim Harrison Uncharted, Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, Isabel Greenberg Ten Years in the Tub, Nick Hornby The Apartment, Greg Baxter Jesus: The Human Face of God, Jay Parini The Kid, Ben Bradlee Jr., Ben Braddlee Jr. Dangerous Women, George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois At Costco, the Pennie’s Pick for the month is Jan-Philipp Sendker’s The Art […]